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1. Personal protective equipment
October 25, 2011
Use of Protective Barriers
Protective barriers reduce the risk of exposure of the health-care worker's skin or mucous membranes to potentially infective materials. For universal precautions, protective barriers reduce the risk of exposure to blood, body fluids containing visible blood, and ...
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2. Universal Precautions
October 25, 2011
Introduction Universal precautions are intended to prevent parenteral, mucous membrane, and nonintact skin exposures of health-care workers to bloodborne pathogens. In addition, immunization with HBV vaccine is recommended as an important adjunct to universal precautions for health-care workers wh...
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3. Preventing Needlestick Injuries
October 25, 2011
More than 8 million health care workers in the United States work in hospitals and other health care settings. Precise national data are not available on the annual number of needlestick and other percutaneous injuries among health care workers; however, estimates indicate that 600,000 to 800,000 su...
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4. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
October 25, 2011
Definition of MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics. These antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as oxacillin, penicillin, and amoxicillin. In the community, most MRSA infections ...
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5. HIPAA
October 25, 2011
Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Introduction • The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“Privacy Rule”) establishes, for the first time, a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. The U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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6. Hepatitis A,B,C,D,E
October 25, 2011
Hepatitis" means inflammation of the liver and also refers to a group of viral infections that affect the liver . The most common types are Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. Viral hepatitis is the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation. An est...
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7. Fire extinguishers classes and uses
October 25, 2011
Fire triangle
To understand how fire extinguishers work, you need to understand a little about fire. Fire is a very rapid chemical reaction between oxygen and a combustible material, which results in the release of heat, light, flames, and smoke.
For fire to exist, the following fo...
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8. Chemical Hazard Communication
October 25, 2011
About 32 million workers work with and are potentially exposed to one or more chemical hazards. There are an estimated 650,000 existing chemical products, and hundreds of new ones being introduced annually. This poses a serious problem for exposed workers and their employers. Chemical exposure may ...
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9. Back Safety and Back Injuries
October 25, 2011
Back injuries are considered by OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) as the nation's #1 workplace safety problem. Back injuries are often: • Very painful; • A long term or lifetime disability; and • Expensive to diagnose and treat. Most back problems are related to you...
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10. Radiology - Continuing Education State Requirements
September 24, 2011
The ARRT requires that technologists earn 24 Category A or A+ credits of continuing education during their biennium. A maximum of 12 CE credits per biennium may be claimed for tumor boards. Effective January 1, 2011, the maximum number of CE credit for applications facility training will be capped...
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